>In software San Francisco is still the top for AI research

What was the last thing that a major US Lab published? It's all trade secrets.

Chinese labs are the only ones publishing results as they happen.

The US is in the position it was for semiconductor manufacturing, first it was labs and open science. Then by the 80s fabs started costing millions and universities stopped being able to contribute and nothing got published.

Now it's getting to trillions and if Intel goes under there is no one in the US who knows how to make any semiconductor generation newer than 2010.